NET2PHONE CABLE AND TELECOM
DEPLOYMENTS/VOIP OPERATIONS
Homes passed – as of 4/31/05 – ~ 2.5 million
Cable telephony subscribers as of 4/31/2005 – 25,000+ per Net2Phone
Provider
Subscribers
Status/
Start Date
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Liberty Cablevision of Puerto Rico, Inc. (PacketCable)
Passing 330,000 homes (2005).
NTOP’s showcase cable telephony deployment launched across 90% of footprint.
John Malone/Liberty Media is interested in consolidating further in the region.
Q2 2004
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Bresnan Communications (PacketCable)
More than 300,000 video subscribers and over 540,000 homes passed (2005).
13th largest US cable operator operating in Colorado, Montana, Wyoming and Utah.
Q1 2005
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Northland Cable Television (VoiceLine)
315,000
18th largest US cable operator operating in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, Washington, California, and Idaho.
Q1 2005
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Millenium Digital Cable (VoiceLine)
255,000 homes passed (2005).
St. Louis-based MSO operating in Maryland, Michigan, Washington and Oregon.
Q1 2005
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Altice One
Representing more than 520,000 homes in their franchises (2005). Brussels, Belgium; Strasbourg area and Mulhouse, France; and Luxembourg.
Coditel Luxembourg (PacketCable)
Est Videocomm (France) (PacketCable)
Coditel Belgium (PacketCable)
[6/05 – TelNet (John Malone) is interested in buying Altice One.]
[12/04 – U.K. private equity house Cinven Ltd. and Luxembourg-based cable operator Altice One Group agreed to acquire the cable operations of France Télécom SA and Vivendi Universal SA. The combined network of 1.8 million subscribers, with about 4.2 million homes passed, covers 17 of France's 20 biggest cities. Per Cinven, there will be opportunities to develop market penetration by cashing in on the migration from analog to digital TV and bundling cable with broadband and voice-over-Internet-protocol products. This is to be set up as a separate cable mso -- outside of Altice One.]
Q1 2005
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TVA, Brazil (VoiceLine)
Brazil's second-largest cable television operator – 295,000 cable television customers and 35,000 broadband Internet access users.
TVA, owned by the Abril Group, one of Latin America's largest media holding companies, is using voice over Internet protocol, or VoIP, technology in partnership with U.S. technology firm Net2Phone Inc. and Brazilian long-distance operator Primeira Escolha. The partners began providing corporate VoIP services in October 2004, and are now opening up the service to anybody with broadband Internet access at home.
6/2005
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Atlantic Broadband
250,000 customers in central Pennsylvania, Miami Beach, Fla., and parts of Maryland and Delaware. Executed cable telephony and license agreement 3/11/05.
16th largest MSO in the country.
Launch date of the cable telephony services expected late 2005
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Rural West
4,000
Cable operator serving numerous U.S. military bases. Member of the National Cable Television Cooperative. Plans to roll out telephony in cable systems across Colorado, Arizona, California, Hawaii and selected military bases overseas.
End of 2004
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TV Cicade, Brazil
255,000
Net2Phone selected by TV Cidade, third largest cable operator in Brazil, to provide a suite of broadband telephony solutions to be offered in the Brazilian market.
10/6/04
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Communications Services (Tifton, Georgia) (VoiceLine)
Unk.
Q2 2005
City of Tifton, Georgia Telecommunications Municipal Cable and Broadband System (CityNet) (VoiceLine)
Unk.
Q2 2005
April 5, 2005. Net2Phone Inc. signed five-year contracts with Communications Services and the City of Tifton’s Georgia Telecommunications Municipal Cable and Broadband System (CityNet) to offer VoiceLine broadband telephony service.
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Cable & Wireless Caymans (VoiceLine)
Cable & Wireless, the area's incumbent telco, offers the service under the brand "NetSpeak" to all three islands (Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, and Little Cayman).
5/9/05
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A5 TNT Company (Hip Telecom, Brazil) (VoiceLine)
30,000 NTOP subscribers projected by end of 2004; 360,000 projected by or in 2008 per A5 TNT CEO
6/10/05
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Empresa de Telecommunicacions de Bogota (ETB), Columbia
(NTOP’s VoiceLine broadband telephony service and MaxPVN(SM) corporate service)
ETB, has 2 million customers, and offers local, long distance and international calling services via the Net2Phone partnership (ETB restructured around NTOP/voIP; may merge with two other state owned telecom carriers).
2/23/05
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MCI Powered by Net2Phone (VoiceLine)
National voIP trial with Net2phone. VoIP service called Neighborhood Broadband. Per-city cap of 5,000 users.
MCI is capable of offering wholesale services to more than 50% of the U.S. population based on MCI’s U.S. local CLEC footprint (as of January 2005).
6/2005
gigaom.com
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NTOP signed new National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC) Master Purchasing Agreement. The agreement with NCTC is an affinity marketing deal. Net2Phone is a platinum vendor of VoIP services to the NCTC and offers members ways to market telephony services to their end users
Purchasing group representing more than 1,100 U.S. cable operators.
4/5/05
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Primeira Escolha
(Brazil licensed telecommunications operator, providing a suite of Voice over IP solutions in the Brazilian market)
"At almost 100 million telephone lines, Brazil has one of the largest telecommunications networks in the world. With Net2Phone as a partner, Primeira Escolha is poised to enter this market with the most up-to-date VoIP infrastructure available.” – Mario Leonel, President of Primeira Escolha.
8/5/2004
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The Cable of St. Kitts (VoiceLine)
Unk. (deployment of voIP telephony services; also offers prefix dial services)
Net2Phone and The Cable of St. Kitts today announced a memorandum of understanding to deploy a suite of VoIP services, including VoiceLine, throughout the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis. Only cable operator in St. Kitts.
Second half of 2004
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Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago
Agreement with Net2Phone Global Services to market suite of co-branded retail services in Trinidad and Tobago using Net2Phone's hosted VoIP platform.
2/9/04
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Netstream Global, Kingston, Jamaica (one of more than 450 NTOP resellers in more than 130 countries)
Offers NTOP VoiceLine through DSL broadband internet connection throughout Jamaica (2 million Jamaicans living outside the country)
5/05
Net2Phone and Hughes Network Systems Europe offer voIP via satellite service
The service is available to customers of Direcway broadband satellite service. Net2Phone's VoIP service is enabled through Hughes' DW6040 Voice Appliance terminals on Direcway. The service is offered throughout Europe and the Middle East.
02/2005
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Offered October 2004 – NTOP’s 1st wi-fi phone available, offering SIP-based VoiceLine:
Offered summer 2005 – NTOP’s 2nd generation wi-fi phone is expected to include a softphone client that enables PDAs, desktop and laptop computers with Wi-Fi VoIP.
Net2Phone provides VoIP PacketCable, SIP, wireless, and satellite solutions around the world.
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unannounced msos/telecoms in pipeline?
idt into voip, much as other large telecom carriers are doing? |
